smackjack @ smackjack @lemmy.world

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Could it be that we were the only species that figured out how to communicate via radio?

Think of AI like computers and spreadsheet software in the early 80s. I bet a lot of accountants were pretty freaked out about what this new technology was going to mean for their jobs.

Did technology replace those accountants? No, but companies probably didn't need as many accountants as they did before. AI will likely reduce the number of programmers that a company needs, but it won't eliminate them

If dairy restrictions are a disability, then me being left handed is also a disability.

Your living space being a disgusting mess, but you're able to ignore it by immersing yourself in your games.

Ask an LLM to explain a joke. It often won't understand why a joke is funny, but that won't stop it from trying to give you an explanation.

The sounds your computer would make if it was connecting to dialup Internet, or the sound you would hear if someone was using said dialup and you picked up the phone.

PC speakers and how they differed from regular speakers, or the fact that you needed a sound card if you wanted sound that wasn't just beeps.

This is why I think that temporary SSNs should be a thing . It would be a number that links to your real SSN and would be used to verify your identity, but would stop working after a day or two. That way if a company has a data breach, any SSNs that get stolen would no longer work.

The idea is that if it gets lost outside somewhere, then the paper will degrade to the point that it's no longer readable. You can always get another card if you lose yours.

I own a Zune. Despite owning it for over a decade, it's still worth about what I paid for it.

I always thought the K in KDE just stood for KDE.

Every time I see that "this incident will be reported" message, I picture some poor schmuck in a cubicle getting pulled into the boss's office and interrogated for two hours about why they tried to run a command as sudo.

Another settlement needs her help.

I hope for your sake that your name isn't Jack.

An auto repair place is something that people don't think about. It's great being able to drop off your car and walk your ass home and then wait for them to call you.

At my job, it used to be the department managers who did interviews and made hiring decisions, but then they changed it so that HR would handle all of that. Ever since then, they've gone and hired the absolute shittiest people you can imagine. HR has no idea how to hire people or what to look for. They even hired a sex offender to work in an area where children are likely to be present because they never bothered to do a background check.

Imagine spending 15,000 dollars to not have a dishwasher. That kitchen is trash even if you don't account for the color scheme. I don't even see a way to plug in appliances.

One thing I've noticed is that it pretty much always takes two days to deliver your items. The only difference is that Amazon will let your order sit in their warehouse for a few extra days if you don't have Prime.

I don't think I've ever used Ubuntu for more than a month. I just don't like the way it looks, how locked down everything is, and how hard it is to customize.